Thomas J. Holmes

Research Page

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Curriculum Vitae

Recent working papers: (All of these can be read with Acrobat Reader)

• "Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade
," with Wen-Tai Hsu and Sanghoon Lee, March 2012.
• “An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution,with Geography and Intra- and International Trade,” with John Stevens, Revised August, 2012 (Web Appendix with Data and Programs)
• “New Manufacturing Investment and Unions,” February 2013, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Economic Policy Paper 13-2.
• "The Case of the Disappearing Large-Employer Manufacturing Plants: Not Much of a Mystery After All," July 2011, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Economic Policy Paper 11-4
• “Exports, Borders, Distance, and Plant Size,” with John J. Stevens, forthcoming Journal of International Economics
• “The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density,” Econometrica, Vol. 79, No. 1 (January, 2011), 253-302.
1. Movie of Wal-Mart Store Openings.
2. Additional Opening Information
• “Optimal City Hierarchy: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Central Place Theory,” with Wen-Tai Hsu, and Frank Morgan, revised August 2012 Separate Appendix
• “Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions,” with David K. Levine and James A Schmitz, Jr., forthcoming American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• “A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline,” with Julia Thornton Snider American Economic Journal: Microeconomics: Volume 3, Issue 2, May 2011
• “Cities as Six-by-Six Mile Squares: Zipf’s Law?” in Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward L. Glaeser, The University of Chicago Press, 2010, with Sanghoon Lee
• “Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty,” with Sanghoon Lee, revised June 2010, forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics.
• “Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files,” with Michael Walrath, NBER Working Paper #13212, July 2007. Data Appendix. Data
• “Geographic Spillover of Unionism” April 2006.

Data

• Data and Programs for “An Alternative Theory of the Size Distribution with an Application fo Trade.”
• Wal-Mart: (Selected data from “Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density”)
• State border data.
• County Business Pattern Establishment Data
• Data on Unions used in “Geographic Spillover of Unionism”
• Data on Unions used in “Dynamics of Union Organization: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files.”

Separate Appendices for Papers

• Separate Appendix for “The Location of Sales Offices and the Attraction of Cities”
• Separate Appendix for “Does Home Market Size Matter for the Pattern of Trade?”
• Separate Appendix for Do Mergers Lead To Monopoly in the Long Run? Results From the Dominant Firm Model," with Gautam Gowrisankaran
• Separate Appendix for "Bar Codes Lead to Frequent Deliveries and Superstores,"

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